Books by Keyword: Numerical Modelling

Description: The 29th International ESAFORM Conference on Material Forming (ESAFORM 2026, Thessaloniki, Greece, from 27 to 29 April 2026) is a joint scientific event of the oldest and most prestigious Mechanical Engineering academic schools in Greece, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the National Technical University of Athens, respectively. The conference publication contains sixteent chapters the topicaly related with 16 Mini-Symposia around the following topics: additive manufacturing, composites forming processes, extrusion and drawing, forging and rolling, formability of metallic materials, friction and wear in metal forming, incremental and sheet metal forming, innovative joining by forming technologies, optimization and inverse analysis in forming, machining, cutting and severe plastic deformation, material behaviour modelling, new and advanced numerical strategies for material forming, non-conventional processes, polymer processing and thermo-mechanical properties, sustainability in material forming, and advanced metal casting. The edition will be useful for a wide range of specialists in structural materials forming processes.

Description: The main topics of this special edition are non-conventional material processing technologies, both conventional materials and materials with specific properties for functional applications. The electrochemical and electro-physical machining processes, including precision pulsed electrochemical machining, laser beam cutting, additive manufacturing, layered hybrid composite tube manufacturing, etc. The edition ranges from surface engineering to forming methods of complex hybrid composite materials. The research results for numerical modelling of the mechanical behaviour of innovative non-conventional materials and hybrid structures are also presented here. The book will be useful for researchers and engineers in mechanical engineering.

Description: This special edition contains research ranging from the thermo-chemo-mechanical properties of polymers and coupled transfer processes, in particular heat transfer in moulded parts, tools, and interfaces, to the optimisation of polymer processing parameters.

Description: This special edition presents research results related to the use of advanced and non-conventional methods for modelling and simulation of forming processes, including the application of machine learning and AI techniques. By that, developments in the field of numerical simulation were considered that could eventually be applied to the simulation of any forming process. The edition will be helpful for researchers in materials science and the development of materials processing technologies.

Description: This special edition focuses on contributions that detail the results of new developments and provide a deeper understanding of incremental and sheet material forming processes. Research concerns the design of novel processes, in-process measurement techniques, innovative tooling, methods for the analysis and modelling of friction phenomena and methods for the optimisation, robust design and control of incremental and sheet forming processes, etc. The edition will be helpful for specialists in mechanical engineering.

Description: The main topics of this special edition are: mechanical fastening operations; joints based on friction welding; hybrid joining processes; innovative joining processes, including the forming or pre-forming of the materials to be joined; computational methods for joining process simulation; applications of inverse analysis to material characterisation in joining conditions, etc. The edition will be helpful for specialists in mechanical engineering.

Description: The special issue considers some aspects of metal extrusion and drawing technologies. Articles cover experimental and theoretical achievements on the development and optimisation of these technologies. Analysis of mechanical properties and the occurrence of microstructural defects, as well as forecasting technological parameters, are also related to this issue, etc. This issue will be useful for many specialists in metallurgy and materials processing.

Description: The wide applications of high-level composite materials at affordable development and manufacturing costs create significant demand for scientific research and computational methods to analyse properties in composite manufacturing. The mechanical behaviour of composite parts in service is dominated by fiber orientation and density, which in turn are determined by the forming process. In this case, predicting in-service performance of finished products requires a full understanding of, and preferably a prediction of, the complex material behaviour during manufacturing. The presented special issue covers these and other issues arising in the development, production, and application of modern composite materials and will be useful to many scientists and engineers from the mechanical engineering industry.

Description: This special edition presents contemporary research contributions and engineering solutions that address fundamental and applied challenges in applied thermodynamics and materials for energy storage and energy conversion technologies. The articles collectively reflect the growing importance of advanced numerical modelling tools and innovative materials in achieving higher efficiency, reliability, and environmental responsibility in modern engineering systems.

Description: This special edition presents recent advances in the analysis of heat and mass transfer phenomena, performance, and structural transformation of engineering materials under complex operating conditions.